[HN Gopher] China pressures Germany's Continental to cut out Lit...
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China pressures Germany's Continental to cut out Lithuania -
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Author : tasubotadas
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-12-17 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
| diego_moita wrote:
| Europe has a long history of dealing with imperial bullies. In
| fact, that is the reason why the concept of modern state and
| sovereignty were created there in the Westphalia Treaties.
|
| I so much hope all the smaller European countries honor their own
| fight for freedom and sovereignty and get behind Lithuania. If
| they don't do that then what is the purpose of belonging to the
| European Union?
| pokepim wrote:
| What imperial bullies? The biggest empires in the history were
| European and usually they were the bully... What is even that
| comment.
| CogitoCogito wrote:
| > What imperial bullies? The biggest empires in the history
| were European and usually they were the bully... What is even
| that comment.
|
| In this case, China is quite clearly the imperial bully.
| dragonwriter wrote:
| > The biggest empires in the history were European
|
| Different sources I can find have between 4 and 5 of the top
| 10 as European, the rest Asian, and pretty consistently have
| them alternating the top 4.
| jackjeff wrote:
| The Chinese are denying it. So either there're lying or
| incredibly petty. Either way, not a good look. Either way,
| they'll claim it's western propaganda.
| perceptronas wrote:
| Correct me If I am wrong, but it seems China's government
| controls their companies and makes them act against their best
| economic interest. This results into a much bigger global impact
| of China communist party because of those decisions. This is to
| compare to West companies which act a lot more independently.
| LatteLazy wrote:
| I don't know. The US seems just as happy to get involve in
| company business. Worse, they generally force companies not
| even based in the US to do as they're told. Just look at Iran
| or any financial company.
| CogitoCogito wrote:
| Seems like China is unilaterally changing the so-called "status
| quo". Maybe it's time for the rest of the world to stop
| pretending to respect China's claim to Taiwan and instead openly
| push back against it.
| ReptileMan wrote:
| Or approve the taking of Taiwan by China. Pourquoi mourir pour
| Dantzig?
| eunos wrote:
| Pourquoi mourir pour l'hegemonie americaine.
| musesum wrote:
| Has anyone tried to do global sentiment analysis for nation
| states? China's exploits related to Canada [1], Australia [2],
| and Sri Lanka [3] makes me wonder what happens, should China go
| into recession?
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| [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/world/asia/china-
| canada-m...
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| [2]
| https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/07/ch...
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| [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-
| lank...
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